Movies seen in January 2025
Feb. 1st, 2025 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI'm going to carry on with this.
I returned to the cinema to see Wicked part 1, and it’s the first time I’ve gone to see a film for the second time in the cinema since 2019. It absolutely stood up to the rewatch, probably because they took such care over the details. It’s a full-throated musical, with substance and relatability for all that it’s set in a revisionist land of Oz. So, it entertains, moves and makes you think. I am now fairly sure SPOILER that the Wizard is Elphaba’s birth father. SPOILER I still mostly think the same as I did the first time around, but I found myself pondering Nessa Rose a lot more this time round.
I had a fair idea of what to expect from We Live In Time – it’s a British-set romantic drama told in a non-linear fashion featuring two strong lead performances, though I have to admit I was just a little disappointed. It’s trying to be a tearjerker, but I wasn’t tired or pre-mentstrual (actually, I’m not much of a crier, and, weirdly, there was one row in the cinema that wanted to laugh at any excuse), but the whole messing about with time doesn’t quite detract from the contrivances. Garfield does the heart-on-his-sleeve thing beautifully and Pugh is almost as authentic except when her character claimed to be 34, and my brain went ‘No, you’re not!’ And that’s at quite an early stage in their relationship. Couldn’t they have cast an actress in her mid-thirties, even if she didn’t have Pugh’s specific energy?
And then the credits came up and I saw they’d named one of the characters Dr Kerry Weaver !?!? Mindboggling ER shout-out, that.
I returned to the cinema to see Wicked part 1, and it’s the first time I’ve gone to see a film for the second time in the cinema since 2019. It absolutely stood up to the rewatch, probably because they took such care over the details. It’s a full-throated musical, with substance and relatability for all that it’s set in a revisionist land of Oz. So, it entertains, moves and makes you think. I am now fairly sure SPOILER that the Wizard is Elphaba’s birth father. SPOILER I still mostly think the same as I did the first time around, but I found myself pondering Nessa Rose a lot more this time round.
I had a fair idea of what to expect from We Live In Time – it’s a British-set romantic drama told in a non-linear fashion featuring two strong lead performances, though I have to admit I was just a little disappointed. It’s trying to be a tearjerker, but I wasn’t tired or pre-mentstrual (actually, I’m not much of a crier, and, weirdly, there was one row in the cinema that wanted to laugh at any excuse), but the whole messing about with time doesn’t quite detract from the contrivances. Garfield does the heart-on-his-sleeve thing beautifully and Pugh is almost as authentic except when her character claimed to be 34, and my brain went ‘No, you’re not!’ And that’s at quite an early stage in their relationship. Couldn’t they have cast an actress in her mid-thirties, even if she didn’t have Pugh’s specific energy?
And then the credits came up and I saw they’d named one of the characters Dr Kerry Weaver !?!? Mindboggling ER shout-out, that.
